March 28 - April 3

Plum Tree Buds on a Rainy Day

This week there was a dawning realization that suddenly the beginning of the program season is nearly upon us. The Easter work party begins in just three weeks and from then on program activities will continue almost non-stop, as they do every year, through mid-October. Along with this awareness, there seems to be a stimulating sense of anticipation in the air....

Going my way?

... and lots of projects to attend to as well. Here, Leonie is headed off to clean the interior of water tank B, which is a back-up storage tank that holds 27,000 gallons of water when it is full.

off to sweep the driveway!

Our niece Irena was also here for a few days and volunteered several hours on behalf of Indralaya. In recent years, many high school programs have encouraged student volunteerism and some have found that Indralaya is a great place to satisfy those requirements.

James, Margaret, Frankie

The off-season is also personal retreat time at Indralaya. This past weekend James, Frankie, and Margaret Gomez were up from Seattle for a few days. Margaret volunteered at the Theosophical Library in Seattle for several years which is where she and James met. That's Frankie on the right, age 3.

On Sunday we ventured down near the north shore of East Sound to check out a garage sale and found ourselves at Carol McKinstry's, an artist and co-leader of several recent Creativity Weeks at Indralaya. The photo below, taken from Carol's deck, looks south across the water to the northern shore of Indralaya.

Indralaya Calls to Me...